As for my facts, Chile, Peru, and Argentina have incredibly large Jewish populations. Those and other South American nations were the only ones that accepted Jews fleeing Hitlerian pre-Holocaust Germany.
The one quote that sticks out in my mind from Yad Vashem, the Jerusalem Holocaust memorial, is from the Australian prime minister (I believe) of the time: “Australia does not have a racial problem, and it is not looking to import one.” Most other first-world countries had similar reactions.
Virginia isn’t a state (it’s a commonwealth).
The New York Nets of the ABA (the NBA these days) and the New York Sets of World Team Tennis were named to rhyme with New York’s other second teams, the Jets and the Mets.
The San Diego Sails were left out of the ABA/NBA merger because Los Angeles Lakers owner Jack Kent Cooke refused to share his Southern California fan base. Other San Diego pro basketball teams have met their demise because they sucked badly.
The Los Angeles Clippers originated as the San Diego Clippers. We think of that as the best prank we’ve ever pulled on L.A.
The Houston Rockets’ team name refers to space shuttle launches from Houston, right? Nope. That team started out as the San Diego Rockets. That the businessmen who bought the team and moved it was from Houston was coincidence.
Humans have tails and, I believe, gills at some point in the uterus.
Some UA stuff:
The Arizona Wildcats earned their nickname when they lost their first ever football game to a college vaguely near L.A. (Occidental?). An L.A. sportswriter noted that although they lost, “the Arizona men had in them the fight of wild cats.” The Wildcats’ proud tradition of heroic football losses continues to this day.
The call to “bear down” (take a look on the floor of the McKale center next time you’re watching a Cats home game) came from John “Button” Salmon, a Wildcats quarterback who was hospitalized after a car accident. His last words (to his coach, anyway) were: “Tell them…tell the team to bear down.”
Subsequently, the UA built a recreational basketball gym for player practice and casual student play, called Bear Down Gym. The words “Bear Down” were (still are) painted on the top so as to be seen by overpassing planes. A Wildcat in a helicopter flew over Bear Down Gym and was inspired to write the Wildcat fight song, “Bear Down Arizona”.